Saturday, March 26, 2011

If President Obama Doesn't Tell The American People It's A War, Then It's NOT, Right?

Check this out: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=6116A55F-E2BA-4F5E-BA61-568E9FF5E4D3

Weak and indecisive leadership: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/24/us-libya-usa-poll-idUSTRE72N1JN20110324

Note from the latter link above that most Americans are opposed to using ground troops but 79% want Gadhafi out. I don't know how you do the latter without the former, do you? And note to Americans: there's no such thing as a surgical or clean war in which troops aren't needed and don't die. War is ugly and unpleasant. Problem is, despots, tyrants and thugs leave us no choice. History proves peace always comes at a cost.

To that 79% of Americans who think President Obama is respecting their wishes not to use ground troops I remind you that we have to use ground troops and, in fact, are using ground troops. Yes, we DO have 'boots on the ground'. It's all special forces operations but, just because they're 'special', that doesn't mean they're not troops and not subject to attacks that kill them. Wake up folks and think for yourselves about what's really going on over there. This is nasty, serious business and we'll have to shoulder most of the heavy lifting for much longer than 'days' to get the job done.

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